driven to the edge of ruin by such endless series of
treasons, will make haste to adopt this means of public salvation; and
all Frenchmen will cry as the men of Paris: We go to fight the enemy,
but we will not leave robbers behind us, to butcher our wives and
children.' To which are legibly appended these signatures: Panis,
Sergent; Marat, Friend of the People; (Hist. Parl. xvii. 433.) with
Seven others;--carried down thereby, in a strange way, to the late
remembrance of Antiquarians. We remark, however, that their Circular
rather recoiled on themselves. The Townhalls made no use of it; even the
distracted Sansculottes made little; they only howled and bellowed,
but did not bite. At Rheims 'about eight persons' were killed; and two
afterwards were hanged for doing it. At Lyons, and a few other places,
some attempt was made; but with hardly any effect, being quickly put
down.

Less fortunate were the Prisoners of Orleans; was the good Duke de la
Rochefoucault. He journeying, by quick stages, with his Mother and Wife,
towards the Waters of Forges, or some quieter country, was arrested at
Gisors; conducted along the streets, amid effervescing multitudes,
and killed dead 'by the stroke of a paving-stone hurled through the
coach-window.' Killed as a once Liberal now Aristocrat; Protector
of Priests, Suspender of virtuous Petions, and his unfortunate
Hot-grown-cold, detestable to Patriotism. He dies lamented of Europe;
his blood spattering the cheeks of his old Mother, ninety-three years
old.

As for the Orleans Prisoners, they are State Criminals: Royalist
Ministers, Delessarts, Montmorins; who have been accumulating on the
High Court of Orleans, ever since that Tribunal was set up. Whom now it
seems good that we should get transferred to our new Paris Court of the
Seventeenth; which proceeds far quicker. Accordingly hot Fournier from
Martinique, Fournier l'Americain, is off, missioned by Constituted
Authority; with stanch National Guards, with Lazouski the Pole;
sparingly provided with road-money. These, through bad quarters, through
difficulties, perils, for Authorities cross each other in this time,--do
triumphantly bring off the Fifty or Fifty-three Orleans Prisoners,
towards Paris; where a swifter Court of the Seventeenth will do justice
on them. (Ibid. xvii. 434.) But lo, at Paris, in the interim, a
still swifter and swiftest Court of the Second, and of September, has
instituted itself: enter not Paris, or that will